Sunday, September 18, 2016

Sunday afternoon toons: A Trump-heavy week. Alas.

(I haven't updated the list of epithets and sobriquets for Donald Trump lately, but midway through AMC's airing of all three "Back to the Future" films yesterday a new and especially apt one re-entered my head: "Alternate-Reality Biff Tannen." Story here.)

Yes, Trump claimed
that Hillary started Obama Trutherism and that he himself put a stop
to it. And yes, Trump speculated
again about what would happen if Second Amendment types got an
open shot at Hillary. Are you thinking that this one is finally The
One? Silly
you.

I suppose the only thing that's good
about Trump putting thinly dog-whistled threats out there against
Hillary this time is that it briefly diverted attention from Hillary's
health, which briefly diverted attention from Hillary's foundation,
which briefly diverted attention from Hillary's email accounts, which
brifely diverted attention from Benghazi!!! Gosh, do you thik there's
a
pattern here?

Ann Telnaes
wonders why, after a quarter-century in the game, things
like this keep happening to Hillary. (For a possible answer, see
Jen Sorenson's bit,
below.)

Mark Fiore digs into Hillary's
"deplorable" comment (which has been superseded by
about five other things since she said it only days ago). He seems to
think it was more of an unforced error on her part than I do.

"Did you ever see a dream
walking? Well, I did." "A Dream Walking," directed
in 1934 by Dave Fleischer, cashes in on the popularity of the title
song, which had been recorded the previous year by fellow Paramount
star Bing Crosby. Uncredited:
Seymour Kneitel (animation direction), Sammy Timberg (music
direction), Billy Costello (Popeye), William Pinnell (Bluto), and Mae
Questel (the (The Slender One).

Nothstine is a writer, editor, political junkie, and renegade professor. Contact him here.

*Why p3?

"A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance, and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others." -Thomas Jefferson (1826)